How to stop multiple port access attempts – multiple TIME_WAIT and ESTABLISHED lines on ports 80, 443, etc… from external IPs

I have nginx as reverse proxy and apache in the back, a firewall setup to enable just http and https, and ssh.
netstat -tlupna gives me tens of lines with multiple TIME_WAIT or ESTABLISHED lines coming from plenty of IPs:80 and IPs:443 int… Continue reading How to stop multiple port access attempts – multiple TIME_WAIT and ESTABLISHED lines on ports 80, 443, etc… from external IPs